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The CIA developed a small espionage drone back in the 1970s that resembled a dragonfly. Now that it is on display, viewers are truly impressed by how realistic the tiny spy looks.

According to Business Insider, the drone was called an “Insectothopter,” and was used as a discreet way of recording and collecting audio intelligence.

The ahead-of-its-time drone is now on display at CIA Museum in Langley, Virginia, and is an object of intrigue to everyone who comes to view the exhibit. Because of security considerations, only a select few are able to personally visit the museum to gaze at the spy tech of the past.

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“Its five galleries are hidden from public view, accessible only to CIA employees and special guests who’ve been granted security clearance,” Slate reported. “In these rooms lie artifacts from decades of espionage dating back to World War II, when the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was established.”

But in the digital world, physical presence is no longer required. The has made some of its considerable collection available for online viewing.

The Insectothopter was one of the agency’s tiniest spies, measuring in at just 2.3 inches long and weighing only one gram. According to the CIA, it was created to, “prove the concept of such miniaturized platforms for intelligence collection” was possible.

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“A tiny, gas-powered engine crammed into the insectothopter’s thorax moved the wings up and down, giving the tiny drone height and thrust. A laser beam, according to the CIA’s insectothopter video, ‘provided guidance and acted as the data link for the audio sensor payload,’” Atlas Obscura explained.

I mean, how cool is it that a dragonfly had a laser beam on its head?!

The technology was created with help from a watchmaker and during the test flights the drones had an impressive range of about 650-feet, but had a flight time of only 60 seconds.

According to multiple outlets, the project was eventually canceled and the dragonfly drones were decommissioned after they proved to be too susceptible to crosswinds in the field.

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This project, however, opened the door to many more spy drones based on animals. Another one on display at the museum is known as Charlie. Charlie was a robotic fish with a communication system built into its belly, and was able to operate unmanned and underwater.

According to the CIA, Charlie’s capabilities included, “speed, endurance, maneuverability, depth control, navigational accuracy,” and most freaky of all, “autonomy.”

Add Charlie and the Insectothopter to the fact that the CIA used to use camera-mounted pigeons, and you’ll see why the museum is such a hit with the few visitors who are allowed in.

But considering the engineering advances that have taken place since the 1970s in the fields of robotics, miniature devices and cameras, it is a little disconcerting to consider the possibility that innocent-appearing dragonflies you see, or even fish underwater, could be spies for the CIA.

Talk about thinking outside the box!

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Incorrigible attention whore and race-baiter Shaun King is a jock-sniffer and a hypocrite.

The New York Daily News columnist and former Black Lives Matter activist has worn his love for Cam Newton and Colin Kaepernick on his sleeve and is an NFL junkie to his very core.

That was what made it so bizarre when Mr. King threw a stompy-feet hissy fit and vowed to boycott the NFL after ESPN brought back Hank Williams Jr. to do the opener on Monday Night Football – that and the lack of a rush from teams to sign a certain former Super Bowl losin quarterback.

I’m boycotting the @NFL because of their bigotry & blacklisting of Colin Kaepernick. It’s gone way too far. https://t.co/QTOREmT68A

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 6, 2017

According to King at the time:

Perhaps nothing sealed the deal more for me, though, than ESPN deciding that they were going to bring back Hank Williams, Jr., to sing their popular Monday Night Football anthem before NFL broadcasts. Let’s not forget, Williams openly called Barack Obama Hitler, then a Muslim, and has gone on bigoted and homophobic rants since. Hank Williams, Jr. is basically Donald Trump with a guitar. He’s a bigot. Everybody knows it. His songs and statements have echoed bigotry for years, but now that Obama is out of office, he’s back.

It’s a spit in the face of every African-American fan, every LGBT fan, and everybody who despises bigotry and Islamophobia.

That would have seemed to have sealed the deal that this weirdo would just go and find something else to bitch about…. until it didn’t.

King’s “boycott” quickly went by the wayside on Monday morning when he decided to chime in as an armchair quarterback on how his idol Kaepernick was better than a number of the overpaid white schmucks whose putrid play cost their teams on opening weekend.

Check it OUT:

Yesterday was a complete debacle for the NFL. No reasonable person can argue any longer that Kaepernick doesn’t deserve to be a starter.

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 11, 2017

The quarterback play across the league was atrocious yesterday. I’ve counted 10 sports writers who switched sides for Kaepernick as a result

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 11, 2017

The Browns need Kaepernick.

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 11, 2017

The Jets need Kaepernick.

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 11, 2017

The Bengals need Kaepernick.

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 11, 2017

The Colts need Kaepernick.

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 11, 2017

The Texans need Kaepernick.

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 11, 2017

The Cardinals need Kaepernick.

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 11, 2017

The Bears need Kaepernick.

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 11, 2017

King is right that a good number of the quarterbacks totally stink and Kaepernick does have more talent and experience than a number of them but that ship has already sailed and it’s not about ability but rather one man’s personal choice to willingly become a controversial and eventually toxic figure.

After today’s tweet in which King’s hero Kaepernick praised a narcissistic racist nutcase who called the legitimately elected President of the United States a white supremacist stuck the fork in the ass of his NFL career, the author should start being a part of the solution instead of a part of the problem.

These seedy purveyors of disunity that are undermining America from within like a rapacious column of Formosan Termites are the ones who need to be ignored.

This is especially the case with a dishonest hypocrite like Mr. King who just couldn’t shut his television off and also shut his big damned mouth and serve as a POSITIVE example for once in his life.

Black women on Chicago’s South Side are getting their concealed carry permits and arming up in light of the city’s continual violence.

Breitbart News reported that nearly 4,400 were shot in Chicago in 2016 and there were almost 800 homicides. This year, Fourth of July weekend and the weekend of August 18-20 witnessed a revival of 2016-type violence. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that over 100 people were shot on Fourth of July weekend and another 63 were shot over the weekend of August 18-20.

A total of 22 people were killed over those two weekends alone, and an increasing number of black women on Chicago’s South Side are not sitting around and waiting to be next.

According to the Chicago Tribune, 51-year-old Vernetta Robinzine got her carry permit in the spring and talks of her gun by saying, “It’s like a part of me now.” She lives in Chicago’s South Austin neighborhood and says her home has been robbed and that she responded by putting so many locks on her doors that “she felt like a prisoner in her own house.”

Her daughter then left for college, leaving Robinzine alone, at which time she decided she needed a gun. She said, “I just didn’t want to feel like a victim or vulnerable.”

Robinzine is part of a larger wave of black women in Chicago who are taking their well-being into their own hands. The Tribune reports that “black women in Cook County had the sharpest growth — 67 percent from 2014 to 2016 — of any demographic group receiving concealed carry permits in [the county], based on applicants who disclosed both their race and gender.” For example, 800 carry permits were issued to black women in Cook County in 2008 while 1,368 were issued to black women between January 1, 2017, and August 27, 2017, alone.

National African American Gun Association founder Philip Smith is not surprised by the surge in concealed carry permit issuance to black women. In fact, he indicated that for a single woman who is a mother, having “a gun replaces a male presence in a home.” University of Illinois at Chicago professor Alexandria Filindra had a different opinion. She said, “More people with handguns in their purses means more likelihood of accidental gunshots and not necessarily a lot more actual protection.”

For those paying attention, accidental gunshots are not Chicago’s problem, but ruthless violence wherein an armed criminal preys on an unsuspecting citizen is regularly in the news.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday applauded Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy’s (R-LA) new legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare through block grants.

President Trump released a statement on Wednesday cheering the Graham and Cassidy bill to replace Obamacare. Graham and Cassidy, along with Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Dean Heller (R-NV), and former Sen. Rick Santorum, unveiled their legislation on Wednesday – otherwise known as Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson (GCHJ). The legislation would repeal Obamacare’s individual and employer mandate, Obamacare’s medical device tax, and deliver health care dollars to the states so that they can design  a health care system that works best for their local population.

President Trump said:

I applaud the Senate for continuing to work toward a solution to relieve the disastrous Obamacare burden on the American people.  My Administration has consistently worked to enact legislation that repeals and replaces Obamacare, and that can pass the Senate and make it to my desk.  Obamacare has been a complete nightmare for the many Americans who have been devastated by its skyrocketing healthcare premiums and deductibles and canceled or shrinking plans.  As I have continued to say, inaction is not an option, and I sincerely hope that Senators Graham and Cassidy have found a way to address the Obamacare crisis.

A number of governors have come out publicly in support of the new Obamacare repeal legislation. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds endorsed the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal plan in exclusive interviews with Breitbart News. Herbert declared that the bill was a “vast improvement over the Affordable Care Act.” Graham told Breitbart News that at least 14 governors support the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare legislation.

Sen. Graham cheered Vice President Mike Pence’s support for the new Obamacare repeal bill. Graham said that Pence has been “awesome.”

Graham said that he needs helps rounding up support for the bill. Sen. Graham explained, “I’m urging the White House to call governors and to urge Mitch McConnell to take action. I’m telling the Republican party that we have not tried everything.”

President Trump contends that Obamacare continues to be a “complete nightmare” for Americans and has led to skyrocketing health care costs. The president hopes that this legislation will serve as the vehicle to repeal and replace Obamacare.

“Hate crime” and “hoax” go together better than “liberal” and “bullshit.” On Monday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, liberals were furious that someone threatened to kill black students at a Pennsylvania high school. Adding to the outrage was the fact that police decided not to pursue hate crime charges. Liberals were ready to explode. Is white supremacy so bad that police won’t even bring hate crime charges when someone threatens to kill black people? As it turns out, there is a very logical explanation: the person making those threats is black.

Philly.com reports that a 14-year-old student at West Chester East High School in West Chester, PA sent out some pretty hateful and violent threats on a school-related Instagram page.

“I feel bad for y’all. Because y’all think it’s a joke. Each and everyone [one] those n*ggers will be killed tomorrow,” read one post.

Several of the targeted teenagers spoke at a community meeting Monday night.

“They were just talking down on people, calling blacks n—s, calling Puerto Ricans ‘dirty Mexicans,’” one student told the crowded auditorium. “I felt that was disrespectful, because we don’t do nothing to nobody.”

He said one of the posts was a photograph of him and a friend before a school dance with the caption, “Aw, black n— meets white cracker.”

The posts caused a racial panic among the students:

The posts continued to reverberate Tuesday. One student, who learned Sunday night that she had been targeted in a post calling her “transsexual,” said she took off Monday and Tuesday to regroup.

“I’ve never felt safe at school,” she said. “The only time I feel safe is when I’m in that room with BSU” (Black Student Union).

And the parents:

“Because they are minority students, the school district does not want to say, ‘We have a problem,’” Dayna Spence said, echoing the sentiments of several other parents who said they believe school officials do not value the concerns of minority students.

This panic was all for nothing. The police got warrants for Verizon and Instagram and were able to identify a 14-year-old black male as the one who made the violent racist posts. Though not named because he is a minor, he is also a student at West Chester East High School.

The black student was charged with harassment, cyber bullying, and terroristic threats but definitely no hate crimes.

“This was not a white-black thing,” said school superintendent Jim Scanlon.

Yeah, but it was a black-black thing, a black-white thing, and a black-Hispanic thing. In addition to threatening to kill “n*ggers” this student also made disparaging remarks like “cracker” and “dirty Mexicans.” I feel like if a white student had done anything like this, there would be hate crime charges and outrage on the scale of when liberals thought these threats were made by a white person.

The good news is everyone can relax, white supremacy isn’t nearly the problem the liberal media would have us believe. Who am I kidding? Liberals can never relax; they exist in a constant state of agitation and outrage.

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A group of protesters toting “Black Lives Matter” signs covered up a statue of Thomas Jefferson at University of Virginia Tuesday night in a black shroud following violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month.

Fox News reports that approximately 100 students, faculty, and community members carrying “Black Lives Matter” signs marched on the Charlottesville university and covered up a monument honoring U.S. founding father and UVA founder Thomas Jefferson.

The protesters arrived on the university’s campus around 8 p.m. Tuesday, WVIR reports.

Several people climbed on top of the monument to place signs calling Jefferson a “rapist” and a “racist” before covering the statue in a black shroud.

“No Trump, No KKK, no racist U-V-A,” many students chanted, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Protesters rallied around the statue in response to the university’s decision to turn down the Black Student Alliance’s request to ban white supremacists from campus and take down the Confederate plaques on UVA’s rotunda, the Daily Progress reported.

The protest comes a day after the Deans Working Group released a report that said UVA’s response to the August 11 Charlottesville violence could have been improved, specifically the university’s policies regarding protests and demonstrations.

UVA President Teresa Sullivan said:

What happened on Aug. 11 on our Grounds, while unprecedented, was unacceptable. But we will not let it define us. It takes time to heal as a community and we must do so together. This Working Group report is an important step. Going forward, we must recommit ourselves to our core values and further enhance our inclusive, diverse learning and living environment.